ur problem is that you been brain washed see attaturk as a symbol of good things..education would have progressed regardless of attaturk..it happend everywhere and turkey isnot exception..as for kurdish area..Turks had a speciall policy in Kurdish areas to deprive them from all state investments, economic, sport and education was part of this racist policy and this had nothing to do with PKK because Turkish republic started this racist policy against Kurds from 1920s and PKK started to fight against this policy in 1980..and from then we see Turkish state forced to improve many things in north Kurdistan.

PKK's target in this war is turkish army, security police who are criminlas..it is These evil forces not PKK that are attacking civilians check this link to see for urself how Turkish security attacking peacefull women and childern who came out to celeberate Kurdish new year but were brutally attacked by Thug style Turkish racist police foces

PKK burns 6 year old children using Molotov cocktails. A lot of Kurds think that is good.

They are the ones who make that region dangerous.

I have an acquaintance who served in the Iranian army during the Shah's reign. He was at the Iraqi border in peacetime. The soldiers greatest fear was Iraqi Kurds who would cross the border, ambush Iranian soldiers and murder them to steal their guns.

Murdering people who were not their enemies to steal a gun they could then use to murder other people.

Those provinces of Turkey which go the Ataturk road are developed industrial areas. The most developed parts of the Islamic world.

Turkish speaking Anatolia is also developing rapidly. Not only in industrialisation but also in socially important parameters, like education where the 11 year lyceum is becoming the standard education and around 50 % of the population get higher education.

These are people with a future.

You are interested only in the Kurdish provinces.

They refuse to go the Ataturk road and are a huge problem.

The Greece situation is comparable. Th news are obsessed with bankrupt Greece and keep announcing the end of the Euro and ignore that Northern Europe is doing quite fine and that the bottom line remains: neither the Greeks not the Kurds amount to much, one way or the other.

“Turkey is not a big success story of the Islamic world” hehehhe u must be joking... if being a member of NATO made the western Media silent on the atrocities committed by consequent Turkish regimes against Kurds, Armenian & Assyrians. does mean these crimes will be forgotten. Sooner or later Turkey has to face its past and admit the wrong doing, already some few Turkish intellectuals are talking about these for example Orhan Pamuk and Ismail Besikci..
Read this article from Turkish newspaper and u will learn that Turkey is not as successful as u were doctrine by Turkish schools and Media. These things doensot happen in successful countries,

Kurds sold no-one..now kurds in Iraq have no problem with Arabs because iraq cntral government recognised Kurdistan,,there are disputes but will be solved through dialog! America will need Kurds at least until Iran will regime is gone, one it is gone I am sure unlike Turk, iranian people will recognise Kurdish people right of self determination. if not Kurds will not sit and watch.

But while Turks have been forced to recognise Kurds and stopped calling them mountain Turks..they failed to recognise their right to rule Kurdistan. not only in Turkey but they also try to deny Iraqi Kurdistan ..however they failed and now they are strarting to accept iraqi Kurdistan..Kurds in North Kurdistan have to do more to make stuborn Turks accept they have land call Kurdistan..

French are civilised people, countries like france didnot commit a mass murder when promoted the french language. but attaturk did and has implimented a most brutal methods against Kurds to impose turkish language but thanks god his legacy is badly failed, Kurdish language and tradition have survived and will continue to grow.

you have been brain washed by Turkish media and not trying to see the big picture..turkey is Ocuuping Kurdistan just like French occupation of Algeria and Nazi Germany 's occupation of France in the second warld war.

the violence taking place in Kurdistan is Turkish regime's fault they should stop opressing Kurds and start to listen to their demands. Because the end of all occupers is clear they have to leave.

" the ethnicities of Turkey still work together in consensus " sounds great but Turks are not civilied enough to accept it in practic,,attaturk worked for one language, one culture one centralised stat and called Kurds "mountain Turks" Kurds defeated this racist legacy and forced CHP to agree to the negotiation with Ocalan.

Ur lack the knowledge of History..Turkey was established in 1920..not 1000 years ago. back then Turks were barbarian tribed lived in central Asia.

HISTORY books say when your anccestors came to mesopotamia they killes so many people the rivers of tigris and euphrates became red and then became black because they have thrown all the books which included inventions (algebra, algorithm & alkohol, etc) achieved during islamic rule into the sea.

this was your people 's contribution to the civilisation

after Turks became muslim centuries after that they establish othoman empire with other muslim nations in consense. but Kurds back then had full autonomy, they managed their own area. so Kurds were not ruled by Turks and will never ever accept this!

I am not Turkish, my Kurdish cause taught me to care about loss of innocent lives. whether is Arab, Kurds or Turks.

but if you ever stop sheepishly believing the Turkish TRT news and start to listen to reputable international news channels like Al Jazeera, CNN and BBC World. you would learn that Arab and Kurdish civilians that get killed in Iraq, are Killed by remainings of saddam regimes not American Army; that want the country to stablise and leave.